Libya might be teetering. If this is the end of the despot Moammar Gadhafi’s 40-year regime, good riddance.
Bahrain has pulled back — at least momentarily — from the ini...
WASHINGTON — The magnificent turmoil now gripping statehouses in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana and soon others marks an epic political moment. The nation faces a fiscal crisi...
It is hard to pick up a Pennsylvania newspaper without seeing something about the Marcellus Shale natural gas wells being drilled in our beautiful state. I travel our st...
It’s not easy promoting democracy and defending monarchies at the same time.
But that’s the awkward position the Obama administration finds itself in these days in the A...
MADISON, Wis. — Hitherto, when this university town and seat of state government applauded itself as “the Athens of the Midwest,” the sobriquet suggested kinship with th...
House Republicans are using a bill to fund the government through Sept. 30 as a vehicle to roll back spending on many programs favored by Democrats. But it’s easy for la...
WASHINGTON — Five days before his inauguration, President-elect Obama told the Washington Post that entitlement reform could no longer be kicked down the road. He then s...
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — Several years of huge and persistent state budget deficits have led some politicians to argue that the federal government should either continu...
On Monday, Congress received a gift from President Obama: the federal budget for fiscal year 2012. As its opening shot in what promises to be a long and hard budgetary b...
Our country is broke. We are $14 trillion in debt, and with each passing day the United States pays more than $1.2 billion on our interest payments alone.
We’ve dug a ho...
